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Jeremiah Becker

67:42 - 68:07

"we haven't been engaged about this technology or service By default, we are required to support E911, but we're in the middle of an accounting and mapping migration that won't be done until the middle of next year. So I don't even know if we can actually provide you the data to map a phone number to an address or a cell phone to a location at this time."

“we haven't been engaged about this technology or service By default, we are required to support E911, but we're in the middle of an accounting and mapping migration that won't be done until the middle of next year. So I don't even know if we can actually provide you the data to map a phone number to an address or a cell phone to a location at this time.”
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Jeremiah Becker
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Alaska News
Captured at
October 21, 2026

From the transcript

There is a cap built into the federal statutory rules. I believe it's 150. You'd have to check that, and I, I think for the most part no one would exceed that count, but we just want to make you aware of that. And then, um, finally, we haven't been engaged about this technology or service By default, we are required to support E911, but we're in the middle of an accounting and mapping migration that won't be done until the middle of next year. So I don't even know if we can actually provide you the data to map a phone number to an address or a cell phone to a location at this time.

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